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Uncle Billy lost his willy

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ThreeLocusts · 01/10/2024 16:58

Jingle bells, Batman smells/Robin flew away/uncle Billy lost his willy/on the motorway...
(sung to the tune of the Xmas song)

it's one of a handful of rude rhymes my children learned early on in primary school. This was in the Southeast in the 2010s, but a friend who grew up in Manchester in the 1970s said he knew this rhyme too.

I'd just like to get a sense of how widespread and how old it is. Has it been around since the first Batman TV series of the late 50s (I think)? And do you have other examples of disrespectful children's rhymes featuring pop cultural references? Or rude rhymes full stop? I find this one oddly joyful....

OP posts:
LeatherJacketWedding · 01/10/2024 20:49

Yep!!! Uncle Billy lost his Willy here too 😁
Liverpool 1980s

Concernedfriend2023 · 01/10/2024 20:50

My 7 year old has learnt this at school recently 🙃 We are Essex.

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 01/10/2024 20:50

DappledOliveGroves · 01/10/2024 17:24

Very similar but with a few extra lines:

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
Landed in a football pitch and didn't know how to play - hey!
Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
Uncle Billy lost his willy on the M1 motorway!

Hampshire, early 1990s.

Ours was the landed in a football pitch too. Lincolnshire early 90’s

JudgeJ · 01/10/2024 20:53

Foxxo · 01/10/2024 19:13

our was "Good king Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, a snowball hit him on the snout and made it all uneven, brightly shone his conk that night for the pain was cru-el, til the doctor came in sight, ridiing on a mule (mew-oo-el)

I remember that Good King Wenceslas version and I also recall that the shepherds' 'socks' changed to 'cocks' as we got older!

WideFootWelly · 01/10/2024 20:53

If you go down to the woods today you're sure for a big surprise,
Cause Mum and Dad are having a shag,
Uncle Bob is sucking his knob,
And Auntie Mary's showing her flange to Grandad.

Sorry.

YellowphantGrey · 01/10/2024 20:54

miltown · 01/10/2024 17:12

We sang the Kojack lost his lollipop version too.

However....we had a different uncle Billy rhyme:

My uncle Billy had a 10 foot willy
And he showed it to the lady next door
She thought it was a snake and hit it with a rake
And now its only 2 foot 4

He obviously gets around that uncle Billy and his willy!

That's the Uncle Billy rhyme we sang as kids! (1980s)

We also did

Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin flew away, Santa Claus lost his drawers on the M6 motorway

NoBodyIdRatherBe · 01/10/2024 20:54

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
he lost his pants in the middle of France
and found them in Bombay, hey!
Newcastle upon Tyne 1980’s

Dunnoburt · 01/10/2024 20:55

Milk milk lemonade, round the corner chocolates made.........haha I wish I hadn't seen this thread.....I have to be up super early for work and now I'm thinking about my childhood rhymes hahah thank you OP

Dunnoburt · 01/10/2024 20:57

WideFootWelly · 01/10/2024 20:53

If you go down to the woods today you're sure for a big surprise,
Cause Mum and Dad are having a shag,
Uncle Bob is sucking his knob,
And Auntie Mary's showing her flange to Grandad.

Sorry.

Ours ended with "Aunty Flo is doing it with the poooostman" 😂

DeadsoulsAngel · 01/10/2024 20:58

Has ‘In an English country garden’ been mentioned? North Somerset, 80’s…

coldcallerbaiter · 01/10/2024 20:59

Fatty and skinny went to bed
Fatty blew off and skinny was dead.
London

miniaturepixieonacid · 01/10/2024 20:59

Mr Silly lost his willy on the motorway- South Coast, early 1990s.

Another Maggie Thatcher one from the same time and place:
2, 4, 6, 8
Who don't we appreciate?
Margaret Thatcher, throw her in the bin
If she gets out then sellotape her in.

JudgeJ · 01/10/2024 20:59

ColinRobinsonsFart · 01/10/2024 18:07

The big ship sailed through the alley alley oh
The alley alley oh
The big ship sailed on the alley alley oh
On the last day of September

Glory glory alleluia, teacher hit me with a ruler.
The ruler snapped in half
And we all began to laugh
On the last day of September

All done holding hands in a chain and passing under each other.

Manchester late 1960s early 1970s

I recall
He jumped without a parachute from 50000 feet,
He jumped without a parachute from 50000 feet
He jumped without a parachute from 50000 feet
But he ain;' gonna jump no more

They scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam
They scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam
They scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam
And he ain't gonna jump more

WideFootWelly · 01/10/2024 20:59

There was another to the fraggle rock theme tune. Something about grabbing a fraggle by his cock...but I don't remember the words unfortunately 😕

CabbagesAndCeilingWax · 01/10/2024 21:00

Uricon2 · 01/10/2024 17:13

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away

The Batmobile has lost its wheels and can't come out to play"

W Midlands 1960s.

Same place and decade

"We 3 Kings of Orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car
One on a scooter bibbing his hooter
Following yonder star"

Cars were a big deal in Birmingham back then in more ways than one!

Edited

"we three kings of Leicester Square
Selling knickers tuppence a pair
They're fantastic, no elastic
Buy your granny a pair!"

North London 1980s (when you definitely couldn't buy a pair of knickers for tuppence, elastic or not 🤣)

evtheria · 01/10/2024 21:01

Lived on other side of world but lots of expat kids, and we knew that song. We also had 'eewww, cooties' and 'loser, loser, whatever...' (with accompanying hand signs). Ah, the 90s.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 21:03

DeadsoulsAngel · 01/10/2024 20:58

Has ‘In an English country garden’ been mentioned? North Somerset, 80’s…

Yep!!

We also sang, to the tune of jailhouse rock,
Went to a party at the County jail
Caught my ball on a rusty nail,
When I got home i was in for a shock,
One ball missing and a paralysed cock, let's rock!

MagentaRavioli · 01/10/2024 21:03

jingle bells, Batman smells, robin flew away. Father Christmas lost his whiskers on the Milky Way. Woolwich in the eighties.

Mistressofnone · 01/10/2024 21:03

Sorry if it's been done but...

Let's all go to Tescos
Where [Name] gets his best clothes
Lala la la... Lala la la

His shoes are pretty
They only cost £1.50
Lala la la.. Lala la la!

Thetrickcyclist · 01/10/2024 21:03

Not sure if anyone has posted this one yet. Mid to late 70s, SE England - a bit shocked to realise I was singing this aged 7 or 8, it was a very popular song in the playground!

To the tune of "Doo wah diddy diddy"

Singing number one and my story's just begun
(Chorus:) Singing do what daddy did to mummy to get me
Singing number two and he's got me on the loo
(Chorus)
Singing number three and he's got me on his knee
(Chorus)
Singing number four and he's got me on the floor
(Chorus)
Singing number five and my legs are open wide
(Chorus)
Singing number six and he's getting out his (for some reason we never sang the actual word!)
(Chorus)
Singing number seven and I feel like I'm in heaven
(Chorus)
Singing number eight and the doctor's at the gate
(Chorus)
Singing number nine and the twins are doing fine
(Chorus)
Singing number ten and I want to do it again
(Chorus)

CabbagesAndCeilingWax · 01/10/2024 21:04

DeadsoulsAngel · 01/10/2024 20:58

Has ‘In an English country garden’ been mentioned? North Somerset, 80’s…

🎶What do you do if you need to do a poo.... 🎶

coldcallerbaiter · 01/10/2024 21:04

To the rainbow programme tune:

Up above the trees and houses, bungle flying high
Opens up his hairy arse and shits in zippy’s eye
paint the whole world with a rainbow….

LittleGreenDuck · 01/10/2024 21:05

Willie was a watchdog, sitting on the grass,
Along came a bumblebee and stung him up his...
Ask no questions, tell no lies,
I saw a policeman doing up his...
Flies are nuisance, bees are worse,
This is the end of my silly little verse.

Sung on the bus pretty much non stop on a Junior school trip to Snowdonia, from Hampshire.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 21:05

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 20:26

Whst do you do when you want to have a poo, In an English country, gaaaarden.
Pull down your pants and fertilise the ants, in an English country gaaaarden

.

LittleGreenDuck · 01/10/2024 21:06

goingtohellinahandcart · 01/10/2024 18:01

Anybody else know "great uncle Bulgaria jumped without a parachute" sang to the tune of glory, glory hallelujah

The verses go on and on but the chorus is

glory, glory what a hell of a way to die
jumping out a jet plane and forgetting how to fly
glory glory what a hell of a way to die
and he ain't going to jump no more(without his boots on)

He landed on the runway like a splodge of strawberry jam...